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Definition of communicative adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

communicative

adjective
 
/kəˈmjuːnɪkətɪv/
 
/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪtɪv/
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  1. willing to talk and give information to other people
    • I don't find her very communicative.
    • He wasn’t very communicative and kept things to himself.
    opposite uncommunicative
  2. connected with the ability to communicate in a language, especially a foreign language
    • communicative skills
  3. Word Originlate Middle English: from late Latin communicativus, from communicat- ‘shared’, from the verb communicare ‘to share’, from communis ‘common’.
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